Quick vacations

Leah and I got back from Missouri tonight. It was fun, and I got some new pics out of it. I will type a little more later, but for now I am tired

Praxis 2 and other such wastes of time

So I took the music portion of the praxis teaching exams yesterday. Time is so weird when your sleep cycle is screwed up. The day before I couldn't sleep at all. I finally got to sleep at 9:00a.m. and woke up at 3:00p.m. Then I went and threw stupid papers came home showered and went to take the praxis. I got there at 7:00a.m. and didn't finish until 3:30p.m. I'm tired to say the least. I'm not sure how I did, the test was extremely difficult. The entire thing was timed, which in my opinion is not musician friendly. On one portion I had to answer 95 questions in 65 minutes. While this would not be a problem if it was stricktly a knowledge based test this is not cool if several of the questions require you to analyze a musical score. Also there seemed to be a lot of random questions and questions that you would only know if you where a string, or other instrument player. I'm not supposed to tell any of the questions, but since I'm Jimmy I'll do what I want. One of the questions was who was the first black symphony conductor. I was like WTF? I've never even run across that question before. Oh well with any luck I passed, because I cannot think of a more miserable way to spend an entire Saturday.
The good news is that Friday is my last day to throw papers. Even better news is that Saturday is the start of my vacation. I'm taking an entire week off and it's going to be great. Leah is wanting to go to Missouri, but I'm not sure what I want to do yet. I'm thinking that catching up on sleep, swimming, reading a book, playing video games, and goofing off in general sounds pretty damn good to me. Well it's early in the morning an I need to try to sleep some before it's time to go to my other job.